National Consultancy: Gender Equality Consultant, UNICEF Armenia (until 20 December 2024)

Contract

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UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, a champion

Individual Consultant is expected to perform this assignment in combination of both remote and office-based work model with possible field missions based on needs.

How can you make a difference?

Purpose of Activity/Assignment:

The purpose of this assignment is to support UNICEF Armenia CO in gender equality programming with a particular focus on gender analysis and gender programme review, engagement in family-friendly policies, validation and finalization of virtual safe space content on VAWG for adolescent girls and young women, improvement of knowledge and capacities on gender-responsive teaching and learning, engagement of girls in STEM and expert support in increasing the gender-responsiveness of social policies.

Scope of Work:

In line with the 2021-2026 Country Programme Document, UNICEF identifies and promotes positive gender socialization practices, gender equality and non-discrimination in policies and services thus contributing to greater equality between boys and girls in Armenia. The refugee response requires further expert engagement on gender equality, ensuring that gender CCCs and commitments are properly reflected in UNICEF’s response actions. At the same time, in line with the humanitarian-development nexus, there is a need to ensure proper follow-up on cross-sectorial gender equality programming thus linking it to the newly developed multi-year workplan between UNICEF and the Government.

Technical expertise is required in a number of areas, including:

1. Review of gender and GBV analyses by UN sister agencies and provision of technical inputs, as well as development of a gender snapshot based on multi-sector needs assessment findings led by UNICEF;
2. Conducting and documenting a light gender programme review, including in alignment with CPD evaluation processes;
3. Provide expert support in designing follow-up recommendations and actions to the case study on family-friendly policies in collaboration with UNICEF and UNFPA;
4. Revision, validation and support in uploading of articles on VAWG and support in discussions and improvement of virtual safe space content and functionality for adolescent girls and young women;
5. Contribution to cross-sectorial interventions, including on engagement of girls in STEM and gender-responsive teaching and learning;
6. Support to review of social policies, including strategies and legal packages, from the gender equality perspective;
7. Participation in relevant meeting with Ministries and partners, as well as contribution to design and implementation of awareness raising interventions on key dates.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

• A Master’s degree in communication, gender equality, social sciences, public policy, sociology or a related field;
• At least 5 years of experience in gender equality programming with a particular focus on adolescent girls and young women;
• Relevant experience in advancing gender equality in emergency contexts is an asset;
• Relevant experience in supporting research, studies, monitoring and evaluation, advocacy and communication for social change, with focus on gender equality;
• Familiarity with national legislation, conceptual and policy framework on gender equality, as well as international conventions and best practices;
• Proven ability to effectively engage with a broad and diverse spectrum of stakeholders, including Government, non-governmental partners, as well as international partners;
• Experience of working with UNICEF or other UN agencies as an asset;
• Demonstrated awareness on gender equality, child rights and equity principles, as well as ethics and integrity;
• Fluency in written and spoken Armenian and English.

For more details please refer to the full ToR here. Gender equality expert_ToR final VA.pdf

Terms of the application:

The deadline for the submission of applications is 12 February 2024. Applications should include:

• Cover letter;
• CV;
• Financial Proposal.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).

To view our competency framework, please visit here.

UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.

UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation for consultants/individual contractors with disabilities. This may include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your disability during your application in case you need reasonable accommodation during the selection process and afterwards in your assignment.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

Remarks:

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.

The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.